All American
All American I’m this tiny, this statuesque, and everywhere in between, and everywhere in between bony and overweight, my shadow cannot hold one shape in Omaha, in Tuscaloosa, in Aberdeen. My skin...
View ArticleWestern Civilization
Western Civilization Lucas took one of those trips That Americans of a certain rage Must take—to find themselves. In Utah Lucas found himself marooned In the wilderness, 50 miles From society,...
View ArticleWorking Order
Working Order I stop midstride and cannot look away from the ordinary ticking of the multiverse, senses and simple machines that glow suspended in September’s light. I cannot attend to my...
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“Western Civilization” Bonus Materials!
Scroll down to read an interview with “Western Civilization” poet Peter Jay Shippy and a link to a behind-the-scenes look at Alicia Reece’s filmmaking. Interview with Peter Jay Shippy, Author of...
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“Working Order” Bonus Materials!
Scroll down to read an interview with “Working Order” production company Gentleman Scholar. Interview with Gentleman Scholar, the Production Company behind “Working Order” By David Eingorn, Motionpoems...
View Article“Arrivals and Departures” Year 2, Official Terms of Entry
To submit to “Arrivals and Departures at St. Pau’s Union Depot” Year 2, click here. To learn more about the project, click here. MOTIONPOEMS, INC. “Arrivals and Departures” CALL FOR POEMS A Major...
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“The Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five” Bonus Materials!
Scroll down to read an interview with “The Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five” poet Mark Kraushaar. Interview with Mark Kraushaar, author of “The Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five” AVRA WING for MOPO: There are...
View ArticleThe Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five
The Ring-Toss Lady Breaks a Five It’s all of it rigged, she says, Bust-one-wins, Hi-striker, even the Dozer. It’s like you think you’ll score that giant panda for the wife except you can’t, or not...
View ArticleThis is Not a Fairytale
This is Not a Fairytale Sixteen years ago in northern Michigan, somewhere in the Huron National Forest, a man and a woman from a nearby town pulled over to the shoulder of the road, took their two-year...
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“This Is Not a Fairytale” Bonus Materials
Scroll down to read an interview with “This Is Not A Fairytale” poet Laura Kasischke. ETHNA MCKIERNAN for MOPO: “This is Not a Fairy Tale” is at once eerie, ominous, and ultimately mysterious. I’m...
View ArticleWayne the Stegosaurus
Wayne the Stegosaurus Meet the stegosaurus, Wayne. He doesn’t have the biggest brain. He’s long and heavy, wide and tall, but has a brain that’s extra small. He’s not the brightest dinosaur. He...
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“Wayne the Stegosaurus” Bonus Materials!
We talked with “Wayne the Stegosaurus” poet Kenn Nesbitt and The Mill’s creative team of filmmakers. Interview with Kenn Nesbitt, Children’s Poet Laureate by Alicia Cole, Motionpoems Citizen...
View ArticleAntique Sound
Antique Sound There was an age when you played the records with ordinary steel needles which grew blunt and damaged the grooves or with more expensive stylus tips said to be tungsten or diamond...
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“Albert Einstein” Bonus Materials!
We talked with “Albert Einstein” poet Matthew Zapruder and filmmaker John Akre. Interview with poet Matthew Zapruder by Anne Geske, Motionpoems Citizen Journalist Matthew Zapruder is the author of...
View ArticleJung/Malena/Darwin
JUNG/MALENA/DARWIN A man could stumble into the consulting room with werewolf all around him. A woman would swear she flew. Another, spectral meetings with emissaries from outer space. It isn’t...
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“Jung/Malena/Darwin” Bonus Materials!
We talked with “Jung/Malena/Darwin” poet Albert Goldbarth and filmmaker Chris Jopp. Interview with poet Albert Goldbarth by Rosemary Davis, Motionpoems Citizen Journalist MOPO: Your poem,...
View ArticleAlbert Einstein
Albert Einstein only a few people really try to understand relativity like my father who for decades kept the same gray book next to his bed with diagrams of arrows connecting clocks and towers in...
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Introducing: The weeCinema
Our Kickstarter campaign to fund the building of the first weeCinema is now LIVE. It’s an amazing pop-up cinema we’ve developed in partnership with MSP Film Society and Alchemy Architects. Join the...
View ArticleTalking Points, or: Eggheads
Eggheads In the fifties people who were smart And looked smart were called eggheads. Adlai Stevenson, who was bald and went to Princeton, Was the quintessential egghead, and so he lost To Dwight...
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Bonus Materials for Eggheads / Talking Points
We talked with “Eggheads” poet John Koethe and “Talking Points” filmmaker Rob Perez. Telling, not Showing John Koethe on “Eggheads” by Will Campbell, Motionpoems Citizen Journalist If one were to list...
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